BEIRUT: On the edges of a protest in Lebanon's capital, 24-year-old cartoonist Mohamad Nohad Alameddine bites through sticky tape and plasters one of his political sketches to a side wall.
In public spaces, he and friends stuck up gags about failing electricity and trash management plans, as well as sketches mocking a political class perceived as corrupt. Wherever there was a protest,"I'd go down and stick up a related cartoon," says Alameddine, who signs his drawings as Nougature.In late October, the government stepped down, but a deeply divided political class has yet to form a new one.Last month, Alameddine drew his same long-nosed politician clutching the leg of his throne.
"President Nazeeh headed a militia in the civil war and then became a political figure" after the 1975-1990 conflict, he says. In May, months before the anti-graft street movement, he drew a group of men in suits sitting in the lotus position in yoga class.Hage says inspiration is everywhere in Lebanon,"whether you're in a taxi, at the vegetable shop or at the barber.""I found my place in the revolution," says the satirical artist, who regularly posts on social media and draws once a week for a local newspaper.
A stick figure clings to a pole in a subway, as a voice overhead calls out the next stop in central Beirut.To avoid offending anyone, Hage says he rarely names political leaders, and depicts them all across the board as besuited figures with little bellies poking out."I discovered there's a big gap between my generation and my parents' generation," he says.
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